Art App. 2.4
How was this sculpture described by its creator?
"a space for imagination and reflection" "lived moments made into matter"
In what century did sculptors begin to look beyond the traditional cast, carved, or modeled forms of creating artworks, to more modern methods, such as the process of construction?
19th Century
Which, if any, of these sculptures were created in the nineteenth century?
19th century: Lioness Lovers
Which fundamental sculptural approach was used to create each of these artworks?
3 white sculptures are subtractive 2 brown sculptures are additive
Which (if any) of these sculptural works are constructions and which (if any) are assemblages?
Assemblage: Bird in box Wheel on stool
What did the Italian Renaissance sculptor, painter, and architect Michelangelo think about sculpture?
Believed by Michelangelo: It was only a proper sculpture if you could roll it down a hill without breaking it. Sculpture was the greatest of all the visual arts. The process involved freeing the figure from the stone in which it was trapped.
What type of stone was used to create each of these sculptures?
Big Head: Basalt Sitting Lady: Granite Lioness: Limestone Moses: Marble
Which media are well suited to the casting sculptural process?
Bronze Clay Plaster
Because of their powerful physical presence, sculptures have been created throughout history to commemorate the lives of rulers or express their might. But which rulers are associated with these particular sculptures?
Carving of dying lionness: King Ashurbanipal Lion: King Leopold I Moses: Pope Julius II Tiki Sculpture: King Kamehameha I White Sculpture: Grand Duke Francesco de' Medici
Which of the following artistic methods or movements was the most significant influence on the development of kinetic art as a sculptural form?
Constructivism
Bronze is an alloy of what pure metals?
Copper and tin
What does this sculpture suggest about the culture that made it?
Deaths were marked by joyful celebrations. Women were not socially segregated.
Spiral Jetty, which was created by dumping 6,550 tons of rock and dirt into the Great Salt Lake, is a static work of art.
False
What was the primary sculptural process used to create each of these artworks?
House: Casting Tombstone: Modeling Sculpture: Casting Organic Sculpture: Carving Tiki Sculpture: Carving Statue in park (?): Modeling
Is this artwork an example of a kinetic sculpture—and, if so, why?
It is not a kinetic sculpture
Which fundamental sculptural approach has been used for each of these artworks?
Lady and white sculpture: In the round Lioness: bas relief Centaur: high relief
The use of very different methods, materials, and styles—not to mention the manner in which they are reproduced in photographs—often affects how we perceive the massiveness or otherwise of sculptures. Can you place these figures in the correct order by height, from smallest to tallest?
Lady sitting Head (brown kinda looks abstract (?)) Sculpture Moses Big Head Tiki (biggest)
Which of the following artists was one of the first to merge movement, lighting, and performance in a single sculptural work?
Laszlo Moholy Nagy
Who pioneered the revolutionary idea that any object, simply by virtue of being chosen and presented by an artist, can become a work of art?
Marcel Duchamp
Which of these sculptures are by Michelangelo?
Moses Awakening Slave
Which, if any, of these sculpted figures feature contrapposto in their composition?
NOT CONTRAPPOSTO: Twisted man Man standing upright (old)
Which, if any, of these artworks are kinetic sculptures?
NOT KINETIC: Sculpture that is a solar rotary
Which, if any, of these artworks are sculptural installations?
NOT SCULPTURAL INSTALLATIONS: Video Sculpture that is yellow, red, and big
Which, if any, of these photographs show examples of ancient or modern earthworks?
NOT an earthwork: Building made of earth Backs Ancient earthwork: Serpent Mound Spider Spiral Jetty (water): Modern earthwork
Which, if any, of the following terms relate to the Spanish artist Joan Miró's Object?
Related to Object: assemblage found object appropriation
Artists from which ancient culture created each of these sculptures?
Sculpture: Greek Big Head: Olmec Tombstone: Etruscan Lady: Egyptian Lioness: Assyrian
Since the early twentieth century, artists have found ways to enliven the medium of sculpture that go beyond the traditional additive and subtractive techniques. Who created each of these non-traditional sculptural works?
Shark: Damien Hirst Aunt Jemima: Betye Saar Water (spiral jetty): Robert Smithson Bull Head: Pablo Picasso Field: Anthony Gormley
Based on the composition of each of these sculptures, how is it intended to be viewed?
Single viewpoint: Lady Moses Man holding head
Which, if any, of these traditional sculptural methods are subtractive processes, and which, if any, additive ones?
Subtractive: Carving Drilling Polishing Additive: Modeling Casting Constructing
This assemblage represents what theme(s) or concept(s)?
The challenging of racial and gender stereotypes The survival of African traditions in black culture
What, if anything, is true of all sculptures?
They invite us to interact with them They occupy physical space in our world
Which of these modern sculptures were created by artists using primarily traditional sculptural processes, and which were created by artists chiefly using more contemporary methods?
Traditional: Head Sculpture outside (not the yellow one!)
All sculptures are created using either subtractive or additive methods.
True
What sculptural term is defined by each of the following brief descriptions?
a naturalistic pose in sculpture in which the upper and lower parts of the body twist in different :contrapposto an interior framework or skeleton used to support :armature a sculpture carved with very little depth out from—or into—a plane surface:bas-relief a sculpture of a person depicting only his or her head and shoulders:bust a surface color or texture on a metal caused by ageing:patina
What sculptural term is being defined in each of these brief descriptions?
artwork made of pre-existing three-dimensional objects and materials Correct label: assemblage an artwork consisting of a constructed space or environment Correct label: installation a deliberate incorporation in an artwork of material originally created by someone else Correct label: appropriation a pre-existing everyday object presented as a work of art Correct label: readymade a pre-existing object presented with little or no alteration as part of a work or as a finished work of art in itself Correct label: found object
Which, if any, of the following details correctly relate to the artistic movement that this sculpture belongs to?
developed in the Soviet Union considered art to be an investigation of social needs employed industrial manufacturing techniques
name for the largest form of sculpture—usually additive, but sometimes subtractive—which uses the surface of the globe, or the natural environment, as its primary material?
earthworks
Which, if any, of the following, can be used as substitution materials in the substitution process associated with the creation of sculptures?
foam wax wood
What is another term used to describe sculpture that has been created in the round?
freestanding
Which media are well suited to each of these common sculptural processes?
modeling Correct label:wax Correct label:terra-cotta Correct label:kaolin carving Correct label:marble Correct label:ivory Correct label:ebony
Sculptural materials that are soft, pliable, and are easily manipulated possess what specific property?
plastic
Can you place the steps used to create a lost-wax bronze casting in the correct order, from the beginning to the end of the process?
stick brown stick tan person blue person white with blue aura red with blue aura and bucket orange person
What is the subject of this late sixteenth-century sculpture?
the ancient Roman legend of the rape of the Sabine women a symbolic expression of Florentine power
What is the title of this famous contemporary example of a sculptural construction?
the physical impossibility of death in the mind of someone living
